#1
I walked a bit on Omaha Beach a couple of months ago. I had understood from books and so forth that Omaha was very difficult. But it wasn't until I stood on the beach and looked up at the bluff that I realized it was impossible. I have no idea how they did that.

#5
As evil (the axis) made a mad dash for total control of the world, the US responded with action and deep faith. When it was over, the victors were completely humble and put on the face of their currency, "In God We Trust".

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The ISIS bad boy group claimed an attack that killed eight Egyptian coppers in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, as the country marked the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

"ISIS fighters this morning launched two simultaneous attacks on two police checkpoints in the city of El-Arish," said a statement released by the bad boy group’s propaganda wing, Amaq.

It claimed that 10 coppers were killed in the two attacks; one on a checkpoint south of El-Arish and another on a second checkpoint in a "nearby area".

It said the twin operation was designed to "divide" the attention of security forces and give murderous Moslems enough time to pull back before reinforcements arrived.

The country’s interior ministry said eight Egyptian policeman were killed in an attack on the northeastern region, a hotbed of a years-long insurgency by bully boys, some linked to ISIS.

Egyptian state television... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said there were fears the corpse count could rise, amid reports of attacks on multiple checkpoints.

Amaq said the operation also aimed to undermine attempts by Egyptian police to portray El-Areesh as being safe from ISIS attacks.

Egypt has for years been battling North Sinai forces of Evil affiliated with the ISIS bad boy group.

Hundreds of coppers and soldiers have been killed in attacks which surged after the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

The interior ministry said last month it had intelligence that murderous Moslems were planning attacks on "important and vital facilities," as well as prominent figures in El-Arish.

In late 2017, North Sinai was the scene of the deadliest bad boy attack in Egypt’s modern history when murderous Moslems killed more than 300 worshippers at a mosque, without any group claiming responsibility.

In February 2018, the army launched a nationwide offensive against the Islamists, focused mainly on the North Sinai.

According to official figures, around 650 murderous Moslems have been killed since the start of the operation, while the army has lost some 50 soldiers.

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Bangladeshi student who enrolled in an Australian university with the aim of killing someone in the name of ISIS was juggedDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for 42 years Wednesday for stabbing her local host as he slept.

Momena Shoma, 26, admitted to engaging in a terrorist act when she stabbed Roger Singaravelu in the neck with a kitchen knife just eight days after arriving in Australia.

Shoma, who wore a black niqab showing only her eyes at the sentencing hearing in Victoria state’s supreme court, shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar" as she attacked Singaravelu, who survived and was also present at the hearing, the court heard.

"Your deeds and words, and the intentions accompanying them are chilling," said judge Lesley Taylor in handing down the sentence of 42 years, with a non-parole period of 31 years and six months. She faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Taylor said her actions "sent ripples of horror throughout the Australian community".

"But they do not make you a martyr. They do not make you a beacon of Islam... They make you an undistinguished criminal," she said.

Prosecutors said Shoma became radicalized in 2013 while living in Dhaka and became enamored of ISIS and its calls for Moslems to engage in violent actions against non-Moslems.

After failed attemptCurses! Foiled again!s to study in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...., with the aim of crossing into ISIS-controlled parts of Syria, prosecutors said Shoma received a scholarship to study at La Trobe University in Melbourne and arrived in the city on February 1, 2018.

She moved in with an Australian family under a homestay program for foreign students and immediately began planning an attack on them, the court heard.

She purchased night vision goggles on February 3 and on February 6 rehearsed an attack by repeatedly stabbing the mattress of her host couple when they were not home.

The family discovered the damage and immediately asked the homestay organizers to remove her from the home.

Shoma was then placed with Singaravelu’s family and stabbed him three days later after watching videos about ISIS online, the court heard.

Outside court Singaravelu, an immigrant from Malaysia, said he was amazed to have survived the attack, and questioned how Shoma could have obtained a visa to travel to Australia.

"We came from Malaysia, from a Moslem country. We came to Australia for a better life. And most importantly, the security of this country," he told news hounds.

"She was red flagged in other countries; how she was allowed here?" he asked.

[DW] Cologne...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... police have denied that brief detentions of Ramadan revelers at the city's rail hub amounted to 'racial profiling.' Germany's Central Council of Moslems says officers need coaching in cultural sensitivity."FOAD"
Calls of "Allahu Akbar" ["God is great"] by young Moslems wearing long gowns and vests outside Cologne's main rail station culminated on Wednesday in counter-accusations between city police and the Central Council of Moslems in Germany (ZMD).

Police chief Uwe Jacob denied that his officers were motivated by racism in detaining 10 young Moslem men aged between 18 and 28 inside the station on Tuesday during a one-hour intervention.

Searches done resulted in a one-handed knife being found and infringement proceedings against one person, according to multiple reports.

'APOLOGIES NEEDED'
ZMD chairman Aiman Mazyek said the men were on their way to celebrations to mark the completion of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when faced by a "massive" operation by police.

"We condemn the actions of the Cologne police and expect that coppers will be better culturally trained and sensitized and not react in great nervousness to any intended hint from the public about the alleged 'suspicious' behavior of people of other appearances," said Mazyek, adding that apologies were needed.

In Cologne, a city known for its diversity, police should have a minimum of knowledge about "religion-specific things like holidays and tradition," he added.

The station periphery was the scene of sexual assaults on women as Germany entered New Year in 2016 after dealing with mass "Balkan route" migrant arrivals - an incident that prompted closer policing on the plaza also adjacent to the city's famous cathedral.

#5
Societies need to protect themselves. I have said before, I will say again. There are some things you cannot leave to a government. The moment the first wave of migrants touched their land, the people should have revolted. Forcefully pulled down a govt. that loved outsiders more than those who elected it.
And beaten, lynched, burnt the rats out of their streets back into ports and borders.

The assassination being claimed by ISPP of a "member of Pakistani intelligence" in Mastung is that of @waqarmshahi, who was killed last night in a gun attack. He was a member of pro-govt political party PPP. Photo of his dead body is circulating on pro-IS groups. pic.twitter.com/ODwMK5llAJ

#2
They’re all the real Islamic State — just a bunch of self-organizing, loosely linked independent groups whose loyalty moves to whoever will pay them more, train them more, or has the latest best press. Later they’ll be Al Qaeda again, or the newest spreading thing. The only fixed thing is their family relationships and youthful friends; even their parents’ loyalties do not remain their own.

[Rudaw] Three Peshmerga fighters were maimed, one of them critically, when Ottoman Turkish jets bombed an area north of Erbil on Wednesday morning.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... launched Operation Claw last week targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions inside the Kurdistan Region of Iraq near its shared border with Turkey and Iran.

Asqi Zubair, a resident of a nearby village in Sidakan, awoke in the early hours of Wednesday to the sound of bombing, which has become a daily occurrence.

"The jets had bombed an orchard and a farm belonging to the Peshmerga fighters," Zubair told Rudaw via telephone. "The three Peshmerga, two of them brothers, rushed to the scene to the put out the fire that was engulfing their crops."

Isa Lawa, a Peshmerga colonel, told Rudaw: "When they went to put out the fire... the jets come back and bomb the area again. One of the Peshmerga has lost a leg and the two others have sustained minor injuries."

The incident took place around 5:30 a.m. in the village of Mergarash, Erbil province.

"I don’t know if there were PKK fighters in the orchard when the jets bombed but this has become our fate since 2008 when the Turks started setting up bases," Zubair said.

"The Ottoman Turkish army fired on a haji yesterday who was trying to attend to his orchard at the foot of a hill on which the Turks have a base," he added.

Thousands of villagers in this area are caught in the crossfire between the armed forces of Turkey and Iran and various Kurdish gangs.

Livestock are also regularly killed, destroying livelihoods. Forests and farmland are also devastated each year in wildfires caused festivities and dronezaps.

"Thousands of acres of woodlands, forestry, agricultural and pastoral lands and their vulnerable ecosystems were destroyed," environmental analyst Wim Zwijnenburg said in a 2018 report titled "Burning Borderlands: Open-Source Monitoring of Conflict-caused Wildfires in Iraq".

"Though it’s difficult to identify the cause of each individual fire, a substantial amount of the fires identified were likely caused by military action."

[Rudaw] Relatives of a Yazidi man shot dead in the border area between Turkey and the Kurdistan Region in the early hours of Tuesday have accused the Turkish military of unlawful killing.

Amin Salih, 20, and two of his friends were travelling from the Cham Mishko internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp in Zakho to an area called Rabanga on the Iraqi side of the river that delineates the border with Turkey.

The three young Yezidis, originally from Shingal, had acquired a plot of farmland there.

As they approached the plot on the Iraqi side at around 4am on Tuesday, they came under fire from the Turkish side. One bullet pierced the windscreen of their white KIA pickup.

“The Turks were firing at us and hitting the vehicle,” Hussein Ali, one of the three Yazidi men, told Rudaw on Tuesday.

“The bullet which went through the windscreen hit [Salih’s] temple.”

The two surviving men hid in the vehicle for an hour as the shooting continued. Unable to escape to find help, their friend bled to death in his car seat.

The young men have farmed this plot of land for two years. Soldiers manning a Turkish outpost across the river had regularly fired warning shots, Ali says.

It is possible Salih and his friends were mistaken for smugglers, who use the secluded spot to move goods under the cover of darkness.

Salih’s family says the men were there in the dark hours of the morning because it was Eid and they wanted to finish work early before visiting their Muslim neighbors.

Anbar (IraqiNews) An official source informed, on Wednesday, that a number of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....Lions of Islam were killed, while their hideout was destroyed by a coalition warplanes air strike, north of Anbar.

In a press statement, the source said that the US-led coalition warplanes bombarded, today, specific area in Juail Valley, in the desert of al-Dulab, north of Anbar.

The air strikes destroyed a hideout belongs to the Islamic State, while killed a number of the group’s murderous Moslems, the source added on condition of anonymity.

Anbar (IraqiNews) Paramilitary forces leader Qatary al-Samarmad announced, on Wednesday, killing the so-called Islamic State’s Emir of Wilayat al-Jazeera, along with six others in an air strike by the Iraqi Air Force, west of Anbar.

Samarmad said in a press statement that after receiving information about the presence of the terrorist Abdullah Farhan, a.k.a Abu Muaallam al-Iraqi, in the desert of Anbar, joint forces from the Iraqi army and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri pursued 4 IS members in Dulab area, in Heet District.

He added that the warplanes bombed the tunnel, where the militants hid, while security forces found seven bodies belonging to the Islamic State inside the tunnel, including the Emir of Wilayat al-Jazeera, Abu Musallam al-Iraqi.

The terrorist group used that tunnel as a hideout to plan for attacks and terrorist operations against security forces and civilians, he further explained.

The operation came as part of an intelligence effort between the forces from the army’s 7th division and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri in the region, which facilitated the pursuit of terrorists and eliminating them.

Diyala (IraqiNews) Iraqi Intelligence announced, on Wednesday, apprehending the founder of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group’s branch in Rashidiyah District, north of Baghdad. The Intelligence directorate indicated that the terrorist was apprehended in Diyala Province.

In a press statement, the directorate said, "Based on accurate information, detachments of the military intelligence directorate, backed by the 1st Infantry brigade, apprehended one of the dangerous Death Eaters in Khan Beni Saad area, in Diyala Province."

This terrorist founded a branch for the Islamic State group in Rashidiyah District in Baghdad, the statement added.

After being followed by military intelligence officers, he was forced to flee to Diyala where he was assigned to lead a terrorist group, the statement further explained. The military intelligence officers were able to ambush and arrest him.

The detainee comes from a terrorist family where his mother and sister are imprisoned on charges of terrorism, while his father and brothers fled to neighboring countries. He is also wanted on different charges, including terrorism

And then I ran into Qeshm's reported underground midget submarine pen. I've heard about it, but never seen it until now. Looks close enough to the Chinese sub tunnels at Jianggezhuang and Yulin (just smaller and square) that I'm confident that's what this is here. pic.twitter.com/92Jh2ZJnXw

[DAWN] Military police and forensics in white overalls deployed in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Tuesday after a lone gunman went on an overnight shooting spree, killing four security personnel before blowing himself up in an apartment in a residential building.

The rare shooting, in which the gunman used a cycle of violence to move around, opening fire on police and army vehicles, shook the predominantly Sunni Moslem coastal city on the eve of the Eidul Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramazan.

Interior Minister Raya El Hassan told news hounds that the gunman, identified as Abdul-Rahman Mabsout, is a former member of the bully boyIslamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and now a "lone wolf." She said the situation was under control.

The shooting began late on Monday with Mabsout first firing at a branch of the Lebanese Central Bank, then driving around, shooting at police and later at an army vehicle, killing four.

With police in hot pursuit, opening fire and using tear gas, Mabsout then drove to a residential building, where he shot his way up the stairs and into an empty apartment on the fourth floor and barricaded himself inside.

On Tuesday, there were multiple signs of battle. At least four civilian cars and one police car were heavily damaged, their windshields smashed and pocked by bullet holes.

Military police and forensics removed bullets from the street. Tear gas canisters were still on the ground.

The nine-floor apartment building where Mabsout died was shell pocked and the apartment itself partially destroyed.

The owner of the apartment said he and his family were not in the house when the gunman stormed the building, but that his flat was left largely destroyed by the kaboom. He said the attacker entered his building after shooting one person in the street.

"Thank God there was nobody in the house, and my door is not made of steel, it is a wooden door so I think he broke the door and he walked in," Kamal Ferri said. Mabsout is a former member of the IS group who fought with the bully boy movement in Syria. He were tossed into the calaboose when he returned to Leb in 2016 and was released a year later.

The Lebanese army announced earlier that it has increased security around the country because of the holiday, when people go out to celebrate.

Tripoli, which is Leb’s second largest city, has in the past seen festivities between rival groups that support or oppose the Syrian government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-AssadLeveler of Latakia.... The city is also home to some holy warriors who fought against the Lebanese army in the past.

The bully boy Islamic State group and Al Qaeda-linked turbans have grabbed credit over the past years for attacks in different parts of Leb that killed dozens of people. Such attacks have been rare recently.

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes and shelling by regime forces killed 10 civilians in Syria’s northwest on Wednesday, as residents marked the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a war monitor said.

Two children were among six people killed in regime strikes on the town of Kafr Aweid in the hard boy-held province of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The victims’ relatives gathered at the town’s graveyard on Wednesday afternoon as an excavator dug a large pit in the ground.

The scattered remains of one of the children were placed in a cardboard box before being buried, an AFP photographer said.

The corpse of another was covered in an embroidered blue sheath.

Another civilian died in regime shelling on the northern Hama countryside, also held by bad boys, said the Britannia-based monitor.

Regime air strikes also hit a cycle of violence in the Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan, killing a woman and her two children, said the Observatory.

Wednesday’s attacks come amid an escalation in violence in parts of the country’s northwest held by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

A September deal was supposed to avert a full-out regime offensive on Idlib province and adjacent areas, home to around three million people, nearly half of whom have been displaced from other parts of Syria.

But the regime and its ally Russia have since late April ramped up deadly air strikes and rocket fire on the region, and fighters have clashed on its edges.

The bombardment of Idlib province and neighboring areas has killed more than 300 people since late April, according to the Observatory.

It also displaced nearly 270,000 people in May alone, according to the UN.

A total of 24 health facilities and 35 schools have been hit in the latest escalation, according to the UN’s humanitarian office.

Analysts predict that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-AssadLeveler of Latakia... and his allies will continue to chip away at the area, but not unleash a major assault that would create chaos on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....’s doorstep.

The conflict in Syria has killed more than 370,000 people since it started in 2011.

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